US Labor Board Abandons One of Its Cases Against Musk’s SpaceX

It’s a victory for Elon Musk, who was the largest financial contributor in the 2024 US election. 

The SpaceX Starship sits on the launch pad ahead of its flight test from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, on Nov. 17.Photographer: Chandan Khanna/AFP/Getty Images

The US labor board is abandoning a complaint over SpaceX’s severance and arbitration policies, resolving one front of a sprawling legal battle between the agency and Elon Musk’s aerospace company.

In a Dec. 18 joint motion, attorneys for both SpaceX and the National Labor Relations Board asked a federal judge in Texas to dismiss one of two lawsuits filed by SpaceX that argued the NLRB’s structure was unconstitutional, since the agency had decided to withdraw its complaint against the company.